Highlights From Renewable Energy News

Here are a few noteworthy items from the Renewable Energy News network:

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* Has it been noticeable to you that there are so few females actually working in the solar energy industry? Well, the Professional Women in Solar breakfast at MCormick Place (Chicago--during the Solar Power International 13 gathering") on October 22 was sold out. The cost was 55...for breakfast. Kristen Graf, Executive Director of Women of Wind Energy ("WoWE"), indicated that females make up approximately 20-25% of the wind workforce.
* Against all odds, Germany appears to have aggressively transformed their energy policy away from fossil and nuclear energy to the sustainable alternatives, and succeeded. Why?

* Responsibility for the future
* Protecting the climate
* Supply security, competitiveness and cost stability
* Growth and new jobs
* Greater public participation ("over half of renewable energy projects are owned by individuals and farmers")

If you can't read the details, just click on that graphic.

* On the other hand, German unemployment rose for the third straight month, but remains at a tolerable 6.9%.

* How realistic is 100% renewable energy for electricity? Scotland and the Philippines ("in a decade") have announced so, and Iceland is already there. Of course, Iceland did go bankrupt in 2008, but not for this reason.
* The USA has 2687 megawatts of geothermal energy. While we are #1 worldwide, this is merely 0.3% of our national production. Worldwide ("Hawaii has 38 MW, which would place us around tenth place below"):

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* Matt Horton attacked the four MONSTER MYTHS of renewable fuels as dead wrong:

"NUMBER ONE, THERE'S NO BRAND LOYALTY IN THE FUEL BUSINESS, THEY'LL TELL YOU RIGHT AWAY," MATT HORTON EXPLAINED TO DELEGATES AT THIS YEAR'S ALGAE BIOMASS SUMMIT, WHERE THE STILL-YOUTHFUL BUT NOW SEASONED PROPEL FUELS CEO WAS GIVING A KEYNOTE ADDRESS. "TWO, PEOPLE ONLY CARE ABOUT PRICE. THREE, THEY HAVE NO REAL INTEREST IN THE CONTENT OF THE FUEL. FOUR, THEY ARE AFRAID OF PUTTING NEW FUELS IN THEIR CAR."

Click his name to read his refutation of these conventional pearls of wisdom.

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Tropical Storm Krosa just formed east of the Philippines.

Already at 70 MPH, Krosa will soon strengthen into a typhoon, storm over northern Philippines, enter the South China Sea, attain Category 2 status, then, as presently projected, crash into Hainan, retaining enough power to bring a lot of rain to Vietnam.

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Origin: green-energy-technologies.blogspot.com